Amazon ECS-Optimized Amazon Linux AMI

Note

Amazon ECS vends Linux AMIs that are optimized for the service in two variants.
The latest and recommended version is based on Amazon Linux 2. Amazon ECS also vends
AMIs
that are based on the Amazon Linux AMI, but we recommend that you migrate your
workloads to the Amazon Linux 2 variant, as support for the Amazon Linux AMI will
end no later
than June 30, 2020. For more information, see Amazon ECS-Optimized Amazon Linux 2 AMI.

The Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMIs are provided for you to use to launch your
Amazon ECS container
instances. Although you can create your own container instance AMI that meets the
basic specifications outlined in Container Instance AMIs, the Amazon ECS-optimized AMIs are
preconfigured and tested on Amazon ECS by AWS engineers.

The current Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI consists of:

The latest minimal version of the Amazon Linux AMI

The latest version of the Amazon ECS container agent
(1.22.0)

The recommended version of Docker for the latest Amazon ECS container agent
(18.06.1-ce)

The latest version of the ecs-init package to run and monitor
the Amazon ECS agent (1.22.0-1)